Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-11

By ELL D. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
CURRENT TOPICS.
The News in Brief.
THE Virginia State Democratic conven
tion assembled on the 4th at Roanoke.
GERMAN AMERICAN Catholics are dissat
fsfied with the smallness of German repre-
sentation in the church officialism in thi.
country.
THE Chicago boodlers were all adjudget
guilty by the jury on the night of the 9Th
Seven were given penitentiary sentence:
and the rest fined.
THE Canadian Government is confronted
with Mormon problem in the shape of al
emigration movement from Utah to tn
Northwest Territory.
THE great San Francisco wheat corne
has collapsed, involving transactions t,
the extent of about $40 900 900. Some heav,
failures are expected.
KENTUCKY tobacco men are worked n,
against Commissioner Colman because o
the Agricultural Departments recent re
port on the condition of the tobacco crop
EMIN BEY, the African explorer, wrot
from Wadelai, under date of February 10
1887, that his prospects were hopeful, an,
that he was about to start for the Kabare
gas country.
THE Paris police, on the 9th, seized al
the copies of the New York Herald of Jul,
IA, at that papers bureau in Paris, con
tanning the words and music of the "Bou
LANCER March,"
The Secretary of the Navy on the 2
awarded the contract for constructing new
dry docks at the New York and Norfol
navy yards to j. E. Simpson 6 Co., of New
York, for 81 ,061 $50.
THE jury in the celebrated case of DR.. AL
Mccoy, at Portsmouth, O., charged witt
the murder ofDr. Northrup, returned
verdict on the LIST. Mccoy is adjudget
guilty of murder in the second degree.
NEWS was received in st. Louis on tn,
4th that Judge Miller, of the United State.
Supreme Court had granted writ of er
Tor in the case of Hugh NJ. Brooks, ALA:
Maxwell. the murderer of c. A. Preller.
AN Irishman named Mooney attempted
to blow up the British vessel Queen in New
York harbor on the Sd. He claimed the
British insulted the American flag in Can
ada, and he proposed to avenge the same
ADv1cEs from Panama, dated July 25
say: The famine which is raging al
Antioguia is at its height. In San Vicente
two children in one family have died OF
starvation, and many are in deplorable
circumstances.
DEPUTY LAUR, whose statement that
General Boulanger had been asked by nu.
merous generals of the army to head 6
monarchical coup d'etat was denied by NJ
De Cassagnac, will bring an action against
M. De Cassagnac for libel.
&
THE Pope has decided that the Vatican
shall take no part in political elections in
p Italy, and has appointed a commission to
canvass the clergy of the country with a
view of building up a strong party in the
Chamber of Deputies and forcing the gov
eminent into concessions.
KING KALAKUA of Hawaii signed the
Constitution on July 10. This deprived
Kalakua of monarchical powers, and
leaves only the power to draw salary and
grant pardons. Ex-Premiers Gibson
escaped on bark sailing from Honolulu,
and is now on his way to San Francisco.
AT Bridlington, England, on the list, the
mile handicap bicycle race for professional
riders was won by Temyle, of Chicago.
Morgan, of New York, was second, and
Woodside, of Philadelphia, third. The
five-mile race for the international cham
pionship was won by Woodside in 1850 "a.
Rev. WILLIAM HAGUE, D. D., aged
seventy-nine senior pastor of the Wollas-
Dor Heights Baptist Church, Boston,
dropped dead in front of fremont Temple
on the list. Mr.. Hague had at various times
been pastor. of churches in Utica, Jamaica
Plains, Albany, N. Y, and Providence,
R. /.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued in
structions that the United States steamer
Michigan shall be at Detroit on the 14th
and 10Th of September to take part in the
ceremonies of the reunion of the Army of
the Tennessee, and at Chicago from the 1st
to the Goth of October for the military en-
campment.
THE coinage of the mints during July
was 81 $3.50, 900, of which 100000 was in
standard silver dollars, The limited COIN
age was due to the fact that the mint at
Philadelphia was closed during the month
for repairs. The deficiency in the coinage
of standard dollars will be made good dur
ing the present month.
In the Kentucky State election, on the
LIST, the full Democratic ticket was elected
by large but somewhat reduced majorities,
the Republicans showing heavy gains in
some sections. Buckner, for Governor,
ran ahead of his ticket. Local option was
defeated in Louisville. The Legislature
will be larely Democratic, as usual.
EDWARD BEANS, an old man living at st.
John, n. B., is investigating the merits of
his claim to al. estate worth $40, OO0, 600, left
in Texas by a man named Thomas Beans,
who he is confident is his long unheard-of
brother. Thomas Beans divided his
millions among the negroes on his estate
on condition that no heirs were found.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that during the month
OF July last there was a net decrease of
of ST, 663, 74S in the cash in the treasury and
a net increase of 81 ,047, 1873 in the circula-
tion. The decrease in the cash was mainly
in gold certificates. The decrease in Ma
tional bank notes amounted to s., 543, 031.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
issued a cah for report of the condition
of National banks at the close of business
August 1. The report is called for at
an unusual season, owing to the inn
portance Of ascertaining to what extent
the banks are prepared for the approach
ing demand for money to move the crops.
THE immigration of the past month was
exceeded only by that of one July in the
record of the Castle Garden. During it
81 S44 people were landed against 81 434 of